This is an analysis of the poem Holding Onto Yesterday that begins with:
Barriers aren't meant to stop us!
Those that come stocked, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cadXdXcX bc XbX ccedXcf CXgC chXhcXigg cjf X ei jbib XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,2,3,7,4,9,3,1,2,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101011 1111 01011 01010 100 10101101 01110010 110011010 10101001 011110100 111010 10110011 10010 011000101 1 100101 10001010 001010111 0101010 1101111 111001101 0010111111101 1111101 111010 11001010 0111010101 0111101011 11001010 110011010 1011 1101011101 01001 1100101010 110011001101 110111 100101 11100101 11111 1110001 1100010 10001 101110111 1011 0101110000 11010 10 0100 11101010010 01000111100111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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- summary of Holding Onto Yesterday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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